I went to an interview with Rebbecca Stephenson. She is the executive director of Space Taker. I asked her about the causes of the NEA's creation and she answered that although she has not so much information about the history of the NEA, she consider that is was created to stimulate the culture of the U.S. society and to compete with other countries such as Russia and European countries.
She talked about the Texas Commission for the Arts, wich is funded by the NEA, Houston Arts Alliance and by the private sector. She consider that the use of private sector money has issues bacause they want to use art and artist as propaganda.
One of the issues associated with the National Endowment for the Arts was that sometimes people complained because of the kind of art that was created. People critiziced the NEA because it helped controversial artist as Robert Clark Young, Barbara Degenevieve, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe.
She also sended me an article to get more information about the NEA.
This interviee helped me to understand more about the topic and also to know some of the issues associated with the NEA.
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